horseatingweeds
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I have a new home I haven't moved into yet. It has a leaky external spigot with a corroded stem screw. It's soldered to a leaky compression valve. Also, both main shutoffs, cheap 1979 gate valves before and after the meter, also leak a little.
The city came by today and found that the street shutoff is also bad, leaking even, and plan to replace it in the next few days.
So, all this leaking has put me in the mood to replace cheap valves with something really nice, like American Nibco ball valves, which brings me to a question. The valve on the street side of the meter, just like the valve on my side of the meter, looks like it's soldered. Does this mean the line coming in the house (through the basement floor) is rigid, or does it mean you can sweat the soft copper line? Or, more specifically, what's the most professional and leak-proof way to connect a valve here?
Thanks
The city came by today and found that the street shutoff is also bad, leaking even, and plan to replace it in the next few days.
So, all this leaking has put me in the mood to replace cheap valves with something really nice, like American Nibco ball valves, which brings me to a question. The valve on the street side of the meter, just like the valve on my side of the meter, looks like it's soldered. Does this mean the line coming in the house (through the basement floor) is rigid, or does it mean you can sweat the soft copper line? Or, more specifically, what's the most professional and leak-proof way to connect a valve here?
Thanks